If you aren’t familiar with the process of installing Skyrim mods with Nexus Mod Manager, you might want to brush up with our guide before you get started on the process below. RELATED: How to Install Skyrim and Fallout 4 Mods with Nexus Mod Manager You can check out our guide here to get acquainted if you aren’t already. Install it now, because you’ll need it for this guide. We recommend using Nexus Mod Manager, the de facto standard for third-party Skyrim mods.

Nexus Mod Manager: It’s possible to manually install Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, but there’s really no reason to do so.

(The Special Edition includes the base game and all three official Bethesda add-ons.) If you don’t have all three expansions, you can’t use it.

All three official expansions: the mod uses resource files from Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn.

A good Internet connection: …or a lot of time for the massive download.

The Special Edition of Skyrim is supported, and the mod should be ported to the Xbox One at some point.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for PC: Only the PC version of the game is supported by the developers of Beyond Skyrim, at least at the moment.

Getting this massive mod installed and working is something of a chore, however, and it’s definitely more complicated than your average mod. Beyond Skyrim: Bruma adds the titular city from Cyrodiil, last seen in Oblivion, as a new and huge expansion for the standard in-game explorable area. The going is slow-this is a team of semi-professionals and volunteers, after all, not a company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue-but the first small slice of the project is now complete. The most ambitious of these projects is Beyond Skyrim, which plans to eventually add all of the sprawling fantasy continent of Tamriel to the base game. RELATED: The Best Skyrim Mods That Actually Add Gameplay Bethesda is content to port the old game to every new platform possible, but the modding community is picking up the slack, adding tons of new, professional-level content to the original version of the RPG. It’s been over five years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim landed in gamers’ eager hands, and we don’t seem any closer to a true sequel than we were back then (no, The Elder Scrolls Online doesn’t count).

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